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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Claude Code comes up on the Startup Ideas Podcast, Latent Space, Big Technology, 20VC, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 31:32 Jason Calacanis Then I had some people who started using, you know, cursor or Claude code.
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 17:10 Mehul Nariyawala And then this is one other thing as well that with today's AI, we collaborate, which is, you know, if you're using coding AI, let's say cloud code, uh, cloud code, um, if it does 90% of the job right, you're mismanized because it takes…
Making $$$ with Loop Engineering
- ▶ 0:29 Greg Isenberg To run your business and how you can use Claude code or codex to actually implement it.
- ▶ 2:59 unnamed speaker Um, Boris from, well, Boris from Claude Code started tweeting about it.
- ▶ 7:38 unnamed speaker If you're doing this in Claude code, and you use slash goal, so that's basically running this loop, and it's got this other agent checking, has it actually finished or not?
- ▶ 18:17 unnamed speaker Tell my, you know, my Claude code, go and do the same loop engineering thing we're doing for SEO for inbox zero.
- ▶ 21:12 Greg Isenberg Paste it into your, you know, Claude code or codex and be like, I want to create an SEO loop. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 7:03 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, but let me push back a little bit because, all right, first of all, like I was able to use a lot of Cloud Cowork, Cloud Code, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:12 Alex Kantrowitz You know, OpenAI with ChatGPT, Anthropic with CloudCode and CloudCowork, and those will continue to grow, and they've been the engine behind their, um, behind their growth, and maybe that won't slow down, even if the pricing power goes…
- ▶ 40:34 Ranjan Roy Then suddenly Anthropic has to default to cheaper models, even within Claude or whatever Claude co-work slash, uh, code, like even within Claude, the moment they have to start defaulting more to cheaper models, then they won't be able to…
Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:48 Avishai Abrahami They're not going to use Cloud Code to build, ok? 3 times in the scene
Andrew Feldman on Building a Chip 58x Larger Than Nvidia's · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 4:07 Andrew Feldman And, and so, um, everybody's using their AI, they're trying new things, they're deploying, you know, GPT, or, or cloud code, or, or, or one of these super models, and, um, it's sort of an explosion of, of, of building, of trying new…
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 19:44 Jason Calacanis You know, using quad code, or perplexity, or whatever, and trying to vibe code something.
- ▶ 49:55 Jason Calacanis 11 Labs is doing voice and obviously Claude Code, you know, is an obvious competitor lovable.
Grok 4.5 is a bigger deal than Fable 5
- ▶ 9:01 unnamed speaker You can see here, we have a template option and we just have a template out of the box to spin up a Hermes open clock, Claude code, and then build your own templates.
GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
- ▶ 1:21 Dan Shipper OpenAI answer to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Claude, you know, Claude Cowork. 2 times in the scene
The Future of AI Infra: from Kubernetes to Agent Sandboxes — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
- ▶ 5:50 unnamed speaker Like, if you were to build something today, DevEx is obviously very important, but I feel like, you know, a lot of this has kind of been changed with just hook it up to an agent, have Cloud Code, have Codex, implement the tool.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 4:12 M.G. Siegler And of course, over time, they've brought more stuff into it, like images and, and a few other things here and there, but obviously they, they're sort of now in the position where they need to chase a little bit anthropic and, uh,… 2 times in the scene
Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 28:40 Arun Mathew Now we're seeing people in enterprises that are building an application using Claude, Cowork, or Claude Code, or even Codex, and on the back end, it's using Supabase.
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:23 Mike Mignano So in the case of, you know, Claude, it's like the Claude desktop app, and I would say specifically Claude Code and Claude Cowork that are sort of having this, this loop, this, this flywheel of product and model sort of engagement.
He raised $75M—but kept his team to 21 people & pays everyone the same salary. | Cos Nicolaescu, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 47:10 Cos "Kaz" Nicolaescu Um, like everybody uses cloud code.
This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month
- ▶ 13:21 Jake Glacer I use Mixpanel for in-app analytics, and of course, Cloud Code, the absolute best tool for actually building the app.
Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:52 Clay Bavor I have heard and I have observed that top engineers who are really leaning in to cloud code codex and so on are spending more than a 100,000 dollars on a run rate basis on tokens per year.
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 6:32 David Sacks Anthropix has also launched Cloud Science, Cloud Security, Cloud Legal, Cloud Financial, and of course, Cloud Code. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:52 Rory O'Driscoll Cowork and Claude Code are eating the two core parts of the Microsoft franchise back in the day, which was, you know, offers for the individual knowledge worker, which is what Cowork is becoming. 2 times in the scene
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 36:50 Alex Kantrowitz Between March and June, Vaudit audited bills sent to 60 companies totaling thirty-four million, mostly for usage of Anthropik's cloud code, and found about 1.7 million in mistaken overcharges. 2 times in the scene
Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop.. · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:30 Ev Randle Each on cloud code.
- ▶ 20:49 Ev Randle I think one of the things that we got insanely excited about when we were first tracking, um, the, the rise of coding agents was when cloud code, even when it was still cloud CLI, but when it became cloud code, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:30 Ev Randle Um, decoding agents in Cloud Code, Codex, or Cognition, or any of these other products.
- ▶ 30:23 Ev Randle Um, that said, again, like, I think what's also growing is uses for frontier intelligence, because again, I don't think we had, like, unbelievable quality, um, coding models until Opus for five, until like the last winter, which is why you…
He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years—with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of Render · PMF Show
- ▶ 44:28 Anurag Goel People found that, you know, the latest version of cloud code and codex. 2 times in the scene
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 2:20:22 Alex Kantrowitz It's a massive product builder as well with products like Cloud Code and Cowork that have taken off like crazy over the past few months. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:33:34 Lauren Goode So I think when we talk about anthropic labs, right, people think of cloud code because it is really your breakout product. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:37:48 Alex Kantrowitz And it's a picture of Boris Terny, the person who created Claude Code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:46:06 Mike Krieger Until yesterday, I would have said the same thing about cloud design and cloud code, where if you're in cloud code, you're like, 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 0:03 Alex Kantrowitz It's a massive product builder as well with products like Cloud Code and Cowork that have taken off like crazy over the past few months. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:15 Lauren Goode So I think when we talk about anthropic labs, right, people think of cloud code because it is really your breakout product.
- ▶ 17:29 Alex Kantrowitz And it's a picture of Boris Terny, the person who created Claude Code. 2 times in the scene
The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- ▶ 29:35 Paul Copplestone And then phase three is largely from, from January this year, the likes of Cloud Code and Codex and everything that are just ramping up really, really fast.
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ▶ 3:51 Matei Zaharia Uh, they built something called Isaac that's basically like a wrapper on cloud code and, and codex and, uh, let's you use them either on the web and like,
- ▶ 15:46 Matei Zaharia You know, the thing we did is we, we could get you that on top of like cloud code running in a terminal codex, you know, PI, OpenAI SDK, all that stuff. 2 times in the scene
GLM 5.2: What you need to know
- ▶ 0:26 Greg Isenberg Uh, GLM 5.2, how you should think about running local models, how that integrates to something called open router, how you can use it with your codex or cursor or cloud code.
- ▶ 19:51 Greg Isenberg Use open router and cursor or, or, or cloud code, you know, whatever harness they, they want.
AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
- ▶ 4:44 Zico Kolter And if you find vulnerabilities in the agents that everyone uses, right, things like codex and cloud code, you can actually start to now essentially have a new exploit, a new class of exploit.
- ▶ 41:05 Matt Fredrikson Um, if you parse some untrusted content and there is like a prompt injection, you know, something that's clearly trying to get the model to do a bad thing, you might be interested in knowing about that, but you don't necessarily like want…
- ▶ 50:31 Zico Kolter So Signal's very good at this point with the, with the abilities that sort of, you know, a system like Codex or Cloud Code has, um, without sort of too many plugins enabled where it becomes essentially like OpenClaw.
- ▶ 56:12 Zico Kolter Front of mind for Frontier Labs are going to become front of mind for everyone, for all enterprise as they adopt tools like Codex, like Cloud Code, like Open Claw.
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 17:05 Ronak Malde You can imagine, like, when is the last time you put a thumbs up, a thumbs down in cursor or cloud code?
I Built a $10K/Month App With This One System
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 25:58 Jason Calacanis It's, he's not guaranteed.
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:30 Bryant Chou They're probably going to open up cloud code or a cursor to try to do this, but they'll do a much worse version of it.
- ▶ 17:40 Jared Friedman And I was thinking about like how I would do it without ploy and like with enough effort, I could have maybe gotten like Claude code to do it, but like Claude code doesn't know how to connect to any of those things out of the box. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:30 Garry Tan So there is like a competitive dynamic to it, which has already happened for coding tools, for instance, like sort of unconscionable in, uh, 20, 26 to not be using cloud code or codex or cursor, you know, just. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:01 Diana Hu This is why I think going back to ClockCode versus Cursor ended up doing so well.
Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- ▶ 13:23 Jonathan Siddharth Um, there is a benchmark called Terminal Bench, uh, where you're evaluating, um, Terminal Bench is the kind of benchmark you need for, like, a command line coding agent that has access to a terminal, like, think Cloud Code, Codex, Gemini…
- ▶ 22:57 Jonathan Siddharth My hunch, um, is that when the models improve in coding, they also improve in tool use, uh, and that helps these generalized computer use agents like Codex, Cloud Code, Geminis, CLI, et cetera.
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 1:05:52 Stephen Balaban They need to do, uh, focus on a great, uh, environment, a secure environment to host your Claude code instance on. 2 times in the scene
🔬 The Limits of AI in Science - Why We Need Self-Driving Labs — Joseph Krause, Radical AI
- ▶ 31:54 unnamed speaker Is it every AI engineer who uses cloud code or something has the experience of one-shotting something and then, um, and then like when you look at it, you're like, what is this garbage, right?
AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
- ▶ 2:51 Ara Kharazian You know, the successful launches of Cloud Code last year, finally starting to move into a more popular posture with non-technical users, and just this past month we showed that Anthropica is now the most popular AI model used by US… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 Ara Kharazian Then, by the way, Cloud Code comes out, and then now Cloud Code has majority of the market. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Takes Off, Cursor's Wild Rise, Snap Bets on AR Glasses | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:56 unnamed speaker Nothing, nothing tells that more than Anthropic telling cursor that Claude Code was just a research effort.
Securing the AI Frontier with Anar Bayramov of Polygraf | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 26:42 Kristian Marquez Um, I'm curious, so being a coder yourself, um, you know, obviously Claude Code is in the news, you know, as, as one product, but it's in the news.
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 35:19 Alex Kantrowitz They rolled it back to some degree, but, um, but it is interesting, and as these things become more capable, if one company takes a lead and wants to protect that lead, we might see more of this, which is, I mean, we know Anthropik… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:21 Ranjan Roy Like, again, or it's, we've seen how dramatically Claude code users could switch over to Codex, and when you're in the command line, it all looks kind of the same anyways.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:42 Aravind Srinivas If Anthropic thinks cloud code is already a win,
- ▶ 8:20 Aravind Srinivas Anthropics doing the same on Cloud Code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:39 Aravind Srinivas And so the reason Greg is right is because, um, if you take codex or perplexity computer or plot code, what is that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:26 Aravind Srinivas I think that's actually even bigger market that it's, it's, it's not even like, like think of it as like clock code multiplied by 10. 2 times in the scene
The First App I Ever Built Makes $25K/Month
- ▶ 6:06 unnamed speaker And then I use cloud code to do all of my code writing.
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:36 Harry Stebbings Uh, but, but, but if it's 80 to 90%, does that not just, just present the biggest bear case ever against Codex or Claw Code, because you're just taking away 80 to 90% of that time?
- ▶ 1:02:43 Harry Stebbings I would love just your thoughts on some market composition that I'm struggling with, which is like when you look at cognition, you look at Claw Code, you look at Kodak, you look at Cursor now with Grok. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:13 Matan Grinberg And so, you know, you could be agnostic by saying, hey, every engineer, we're gonna give you Cloud Code, and Codex, and Gemini CLI, and all these other tools.
Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- ▶ 1:07:54 Shashank Saxena So when we look at our internally, we use Gemini and Enthropic and CloudCode. 2 times in the scene
Social Network Sequel Trailer, Fable 5 Sparks Safety Debate, SpaceX IPO Watch | Diet TBPN
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:04 Pedro Franceschi To me, that was the, the, the, the tip of the spear where you could say, yes, like coding harnesses actually work and, you know, cloud code existed for probably a year before, uh, but it wasn't that, that valuable yet.
- ▶ 13:43 Garry Tan None of us opened clawed code. 5 times in the scene
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 5:24 Alex Sacerdote We realize in twenty-twenty-five, the first Claude Code 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:00 Alex Sacerdote We did a ninety-page PowerPoint deck where we used Cloud Code to scour the internet for all the feedback we could about the coding market and the, and what their products were good at, where they might need to improve.
Palo Alto Networks CEO: "AI Found 5 Years of Bugs in 6 Weeks"
- ▶ 15:00 Nikesh Arora Just say, just the way I'm sure Dario says Cloud Code is running away.
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz As Anthropics Cloud Code and OpenAI's Codex take off, where is Google exactly?
- ▶ 2:15 Alex Kantrowitz The bigger issue is they don't have the codex and the cloud code competitor that you thought they would at this point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:18 M.G. Siegler And Claude code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:49 M.G. Siegler And I do think that they will get there at some point, but it's a matter of like, is there, yeah, is there like a first mover advantage much like there has been for Claude code, right? 2 times in the scene
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:43 unnamed speaker Um, a reason to live, a reason to exist, which is, if your options are codex and clawed code, and a neutral third party, and you all pay, you know, you pay consumption based. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- ▶ 12:01 Ahmad Awais And something like this should be very obvious to developers, but what's happening is a lot of developers actually use cloud code. 3 times in the scene
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 9:54 unnamed speaker Was there any question about like use clock code, use something else?
- ▶ 17:28 Axel Backlund But this was like pre-cloud code, so like long context windows weren't really a thing that the labs were training for.
- ▶ 45:44 Lukas Petersson We asked CloudCode, like, oh, look over the traces. 2 times in the scene
Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- ▶ 15:56 Thomas Laffont And what Cloud Code and Codex are doing inside of those businesses.
- ▶ 24:36 Thomas Laffont Anthropic pre-Clot Code was a completely different company than post-Clot Code, right?
Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
- ▶ 38:47 RJ Haneke You know, when I'm writing code with cloud code, but I can imagine problems becoming big enough in a system like this where you have a gazillion lines of lean.
- ▶ 1:06:58 RJ Haneke And, um, I actually tried it with Cloud Code, um, because it's easier than setting up, uh, you know, your own lean, um, tool chain.
Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- ▶ 4:56 Ranjan Roy Everyone was in the command line, you know, cranking out whatever they wanted in Claude code and then Codex, and now everyone's recognizing that, oh, wait, maybe that's not how it should work. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:54 Alex Kantrowitz Given that Claude code really only got good in November, it's entirely unsurprising that a budget set in 2025 may have failed to predict demand for that tool in 2026.
- ▶ 42:56 Alex Kantrowitz And it's largely come on the back of Cloud Code.
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
- ▶ 27:52 Ethan He That's even more expensive than Cloud Code Max.
- ▶ 1:04:25 Shawn Wang For listeners, we did a write-up on the cloud code, uh, leak, where there are eight different kinds of pruning, uh, including like you prune the tool results and all that.
- ▶ 1:25:22 Ethan He And from there you gradually evolve to codecs and cloud code where you do things fully automated.